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Research
Interests
The
word cloud above reveals the most common concepts I've emphasized to
date (based on the abstract and introduction text of all of my academic
papers). I work in the area of resource and environmental
economics. I’m
interested in problems involving decision-making
under uncertainty, learning, adaptive management and environmental risk. The methods I use include
econometrics with
Bayesian inference, Bayesian learning processes, dynamic control and
general
equilibrium models.
Recent and current projects include estimating and
mitigating invasive species risk from international trade, adaptive
management
of environmental risk, econometrics for decision-making applied to
screening of
potentially hazardous imports, analysis of greenhouse gas control
policies
under uncertainty and voluntary policies for stormwater pollution
control.
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Invasive zebra
mussels, credit: USFWS
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Publications
Unintended
biological invasions: Does risk vary by trading partner?
(with Christopher J. Costello, Carol McAusland,
and Andy Solow) Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management,
54(3), 2007, 262-276.
Policy and risk processes of
trade-related
biological invasions.
(with Christopher Costello and Carol McAusland) U.S.
Department of
Agriculture, Economics Research Report, CCR-41, June 2008.
Optimal
random exploration for trade-related non-indigenous species risk. (with
Christopher J. Costello, and Peyton Ferrier) in Bioinvasions
and
Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy, ed.
C. Perrings,
H. Mooney and M. Williamson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, in
press.
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Bookhead (Shields
Library, UCD), credit:
Neustrom
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Teaching
Undergraduate:
ESP
162: Environmental Policy (Winter ’09)
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Graduate:
ESP
212B: Environmental Policy Evaluation (‘09-‘10)
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graduate students
I
anticipate accepting graduate students
through the graduate
group in ecology
(Environmental
Policy Area of Emphasis) for the fall of 2010. When
inquiring about graduate school at UC Davis, please include in your email a short
description of
your academic and professional background (including economic and
ecology
classes), your academic interests, and a couple of sentences
on why you
are interested in attending graduate school. A solid
quantitative background (economics, mathematics and/or statistics) is
important. Also see Professor Jim
Sanchirico, the other economist in the Department of
Environmental Science and Policy.
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